Collapsible landing-net frame



(No Model.)

A. F. 86 W. MEISSELBAOH. GQLLAPSIBLE LANDING NET FRAME.

N0.'546,023. m 0 P& .tented Sept. 10, 1895.

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COLLAPSIBLE LANDlNG-e-NET FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 546,023, datedSeptember 10, 1895.

Application filed February 26, 1895.

To (1 whom, it mag concern:

Be it known that we, Aueusr F. MEIssEL- BACH and WILLIAM MEISSELBAOH,citizens of the United States, residing at Newark, in

5 the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,

have made certain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible Landing-NetFrames, fully described and represented in the following specificationand the accompanying drawto ings, forming a part of the same.

This invention consists in the specific construction herein shown anddescribed for the fastening of the outer ends of the spring-bows of thenet-frame.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a front view, Fig. 2 an edge view,and Fig. 3 a top view, of the frame in readiness for use. Fig. 4 is anedge view of the outer end of one of the bows in section at the centerline, with a locking-plate applied thereto, and Fig. 5 aplan of the samewith the said plate turned at right angles to its normal position, asindicated in the preceding figure. Figs. 6 and 7 are similar views ofthe outer end of the other of the handle suspended by its swiveled hookfrom the shank of a button, which latter is indicated in dotted lines.Figs. 4 to '7, inclusive, are drawn upon a larger scale than the 0 otherfigures. I

The bows a a are formed of flat strips of spring'steel, each having atits butt or inner end a hinge-plate b, secured thereto by means of theintegral rivets 1", formed upon its outer 5 edge and inserted insuitable slots or apertures formed in the bow for the same with theirends upset upon the outer face of the bow. Such hinge-plates are pivotedby means of a pin 19 to opposite sides of apivot-block e, 40 formed withscrew-shank c, screwed into a suitable threaded socket in the ferrule clof the handle h. Both of the hinge-plates b are formed with seats 1)upon their outer edges, adjacent to the pivotal pin 19, at a suitablean- 4 5 gle with the butt ends of their respective bows,

so that when the ferrule d is screwed upon the shank c and firmly seatedagainst the samethe bows will be normally spread apart, as described inour former patent.

In order to secure the outer ends of, the

bows together to produce the required oval Serial No. 539,722. (Nomodel.)

shape for the frame, the how a is provided near the end and upon itsouter face with two shouldered rivets, formed each with a head at,preferably of hooked form, as indicated in the drawings, anduwith shankn, the contracted portion of the latter being inserted in a suitableslot in the bow and its end upset upon the inner face of the bow, andthe outer end of the bow a is provided with apertures or slots 0 toreceive such rivet-heads,and with a catch-plate m, having stop-shoulders'm, pivoted upon its outer face intermediate to such apertures by meansof the pin g. The free ends of the bows being drawn together and therivet-heads projected into their respective apertures while thecatch-plate is in its transverse position, as illustrated in Fig. 5, thelatter is then turned until its stop-shoulders 'm' engage the sides ofthe rivet-heads, as in Fig. 3, which eifects the locking of the heads nfrom retraction, and thus prevents their withdrawal by accident Whilethe net is in use. The handle h is adapted for suspension from the shanks of the button .9 upon the clothing of the user by the hook q, securedto the handle h by means of an eye 25, bent up from a thin strip ofmetal formed with a stem passing through a suitable aperture in the headof the ferrule 6 upon the butt end of the do handle it and terminatingin the divergent prongs 25, whereby the eye is swiveled to the ferrule.

Having thus set forth the invention, what We claim herein, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a collapsible landing-net frame, the combination, with a handle h,of the bows a a having their butt ends secured to the said handle bysuitable means and provided at 0 their outer ends, the one with one ormore shouldered rivets having hooked heads, and the other With one ormore slots to admit the heads of such rivets and with a catch platempivoted upon its outer face adjacent to the 5 said slot or slots andengaging the shouldered rivets, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a collapsible landing-net frame, the combination, with a handle.h, of the bows a a having their butt ends secured to the said handle bysuitable'means and provided at their outer ends, the one with one ormore shouldered rivets having hooked heads, and our hands in thepresence of two subscribing the other with one or more slots to admitthe witnesses.

heads of such rivets and with a catch platem AUGUST F. MEISSELBAGH.having stop shoulders m pivoted upon its WILLIAM MEISSELBAOH. 5 outerface adjacent to the said slot or slots and engaging the shoulderedrivets, substan- Vitnesses: tially as shown and described. I HENRY J.MILLER, In testimony whereof We have hereunto set WILLIAM BATSON.

